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Experience and intuition give you approximately no useful, valid "feel" for how much LOC is appropriate for a given thing, with the possible exception of outlie

by sidlls 9y ago

Experience and intuition give you approximately no useful, valid "feel" for how much LOC is appropriate for a given thing, with the possible exception of outliers or incredibly trivial programs. We don't value LOC as a measure of productivity because it is a terrible metric to use. That doesn't change just because a person is on the developer rather than the manager side of things.

wellpast 9y ago
LOC can be a huge indicator of quality of code imho—would you want to work on a 100k loc app that is more or less crud operations for a specific domain? Etc.
- yxhuvud 9y ago
  I couldnt care less as long as the codebase has a decent structure. And decent structure often increase lines of code.
  - wellpast 9y ago
    I’ve found the opposite to be true. Good structure yields succinctness.
    - sidlls 9y ago
      It may, but LOC isn't a good measure of succinctness. It might be a good measure for terseness, but that's different.
      - wellpast 9y ago
        I think it can safely be said by any programmer, at least, that succinctness and terseness are correlated.
- akvadrako 9y ago
  If you care about happiness, why would you want to work on a CRUD app at all? Anyway I'm not sure what else your 100K LOC is supposed to represent - that the app has a lot of responsibilities?